Charles h



. KNoModel.)

G. H. BEER '8: G. H. BEER; Jr. SASH HOLDER FOR PREVENTING RATTLING 0F WINDOWS.

No. 572,047. Patented No 24, 1896-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BEER AND CHARLES H. BEER, JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SASH-HOLDER FOR PREVENTING RATTLING 0F WINDOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,047, dated November 24, 1896.

Application filed March '7, 1896. Serial No. 582,215. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. BEER and CHARLES H. BEER, Jr. of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Preventing the Battling of Window-Sashes in Their Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a superior device for preventing the rattling of window-sashes in their frames, and we attain this end by means of a spring-rod bent at its middle to form a transverse coil and capable of having its terminals respectively engaged with the upper and lower sashes of a window, while the coil bears against a portion of the window-frame, the device operating to push the upper sash outward against the outer bead of g the window-frame and to push the top rail of the inner sash outward against the lower rail of the top sash.

The invention will be fully described hereinafter and finally embodied in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective showing our invention applied; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the invention, a portion of the sashes being shown in section.

In carrying out our invention a spring-rod is bent at its middle to form a transverse coil 0,, and from the respective ends of this coil the arms I) and c extend, said arms having their terminals curved to form bowed portions adapted to respectively engage the sashes e and f. V

In using our invention one device is provided for each side of the window, and each is arranged as shown in the drawings, so that the arm b will press the upper sash e outward against the outer bead g of the Window-frame and so that the arms 0 will engage the sash f and press the top rail f of said sash against the lower rail e of the top sash. The coil abcars against the inner bead h of the window frame, and it is against this part that the tension of the arms I) and c reacts.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A device for preventing the rattling of window-sashes, the device consisting of a springrod bent at a point between its ends to form a transverse coil and having its ends extended oppositely from the respective ends of the coil, said ends being respectively capable of engaging the upper and lower sashes of the window the coil being capable of engaging the inner bead of the window-frame and the ends of the rod being curved and capable of sliding freely on the window-sashes, substantially as described.

CHARLES H. BEER. CHARLES H. BEER, JR.

\Vitnesses:

F. S. WELLS, R. 0. SMITH. 

